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Bangla Press Desk: Escalating hostilities between the United States and Iran could reignite inflation, drive interest rates higher and knock global growth back to as low as 1.3%, down from 2.9%...
Bangla Press Desk: Russia has declared that it no longer considers itself bound by a self-imposed moratorium on the deployment of nuclear-capable intermediate range missiles, a warning that potentially sets the stage for a new arms race a...
Bangla Press Desk: The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Denmark will buy $1 billion of US weapons under a new NATO scheme to support Ukraine in its war against Russia, the countries announced Tuesday. The purchases from US stockpiles...
Bangla Press Desk: Monsoon floods in a rebel-held Myanmar town on the country's mountainous border with China have killed six people, a spokesman for the armed group controlling the area said Wednesday. The northern town of Laiza bord...
Bangla Press Desk: Hungry children in war-torn Sudan's capital have been reduced to "skin and bones", and thousands of families are at risk of starvation in a western city under a months-long siege, the UN said Tuesday. The Sudanese...
Bangla Press Desk: Police in Pakistan arrested more than 150 activists of the main opposition party holding protests across the country on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the jailing of their leader Imran Khan, security officials and...
Bangla Press Desk: Blood donations are needed now, right now, across the remaining operational medical facilities in Gaza – Al-Shifa Hospital, Al-Aqsa Hospital, Nasser Hospital. Hani Mahmoud said, "We read and hear doctors’ appeal fo...
Noman Sabit: The State Department is set to roll out a pilot program that may require foreign nationals from certain countries seeking business or tourism visas to post a bond of up to $15,000, according to a public notice set to be pub...
Bangla Press Desk: At least 135 Palestinians, including 87 aid seekers, have been killed and 771 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. The number of people who starve...
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel must "complete" the defeat of Hamas in Gaza to secure the release of the remaining hostages, days ahead of a cabinet meeting to discuss an updated war plan. R...
Bangla Press Desk: Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching on record, according to a government report released Wednesday that warns the natural wonder is in dire health. Scientists document...
Bangla Press Desk: Russia and the United States can successfully cooperate in the Arctic, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) CEO Kirill Dmitriev, who is also the Russian president's special representative for investment and economic...
Bangla Press Desk: Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific said Wednesday it would place an $8.1-billion order for 14 Boeing jets, its first with the US aircraft maker for more than a decade. In a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange, the airline...
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